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I The spares and accessories industry like the curate's egg: good in part(s). 'here's new equipment on offer for lost jobs, as exemplified in our proucts pages.
But what service does road transport, self a service industy, get? It gets what pays for. However, for the garage that ; not the whole picture. Minimise ex
enditure on parts, yes, but keeping -ucks mobile is the primary and cost aving part of the exercise and to do rat a reliable source of parts must be vailable at short notice. Workshop's PenWatt has been looking into this (see ages 21-25).
For the benefit of anyone organising a arts department, Watt looks at choices. /kaki guarantees on delivery times with local supplier? Use an outside contracff to take over spare parts organisaon? Or, like British Gas South East, rove to an imprest stock arrangement? lear in mind here that this may entail mailer discounts.
Find out how the manufactuers of the rarques interesting you stand up. Ley
id Daf, for instance, is moving to 4-hour back up, and more dealers can Ike phone calls after 8pm.
There is money to be saved in not olding too much stock. But money to e lost in not specifying quality for re ability. As we go to press, air brake quipment manufacturer Bendix, as part f its battle against spurious or "pirate" econditioners, tells us it is verifying tockist outlets annually with window tickers.
I Give the fitters the right tools and ight training and they'll finish the job. iafely saving downtime saves hundreds if pounds a time. If a truck does fail and ted Triangle (see news pages) comes [long, the emphasis is on keeping it While Red Triangle is growing, here is news of an agreement between Fruckstart, the insurance-based scheme mderwritten at Lloyd's, and AA-BRS Zescue. Unlike a fuel card, it can be ised by single vehicle operators. For my vehicle from 3.5 to 16 tonnes gross vehicle weight, 249.50 annual subscripion (261 for larger vehicles), a call to he Birmingham commrnunications cenre provides access to one of 3,500 mtrols or 1,000 "rescue agents", We must welcome the moves towards the adoption of unleaded petrol. Ne hope the large own-account firms :hat do run large fleets of cars besides mrnmercial vehicles will follow suit. People in the industry are concerned with :he environment and Safety-Kleen UK, or example, is building a million listribution centre and recycle plant at Dinnington, near Rotherham, Yorkshire, The new plant will enable Safety-Kleen to recycle and distribute an initial 14 -nillion litres of solvent and thinners innually — waste fluids that could otherwise add to Britain's pollution problems.